Easter

We had a lovely Easter at home.  It was also General Conference Weekend, so it was nice and low-key.  With our business of the house hunting and house selling, it never even crossed my mind to get any special Easter clothes for the kids; it's a good thing I didn't because most of us stayed home from church the week before Easter with sickness and then Easter Sunday we stayed at home to watch conference here! 
In the early morning hours of Friday before Easter, we had a pretty intense rain/wind/thunder storm.  We ended up loosing power for almost 24 hours.  We were worried we wouldn't have power for the holiday weekend, but luckily it came back on Friday night as we were preparing for bed.  Hooray!  I was thankful to be able to make cinnamon rolls for Saturday morning conference.  We really enjoyed watching general conference.  I am so thankful to have the wisdom and spiritual knowledge flowing into our lives every 6 months from these conferences.  I felt very spiritually fed. 
The kids enjoyed dying eggs with Dad that afternoon.

We actually bought white eggs to dye- since all our chickens lay colored eggs.

Happy children

Kate joined the fun after getting up from her nap.

Funny Dad wrote on this egg with the clear crayon before the kids dyed it.

Happy Easter!

Sunday morning, we had our Easter Egg breakfast and then did the Resurrection eggs- reading all the scriptures and thinking about the Savior's last week, his death, and resurrection. It was lovely. 

Kate loved opening each egg and seeing what was inside!

They loved it!

Arianna emptied hers all out on her plate before she ate.

After that the kids had their egg hunt in the yard.  This year I filled the eggs with puzzle pieces, money and pistachios.  It was a hit all around.  (We had gone to our town's Egg Hunt Friday evening and the kids got way too much candy there, so I didn't want to give them anymore!) 

With Dad



Ready for the hunt!  (Emma found one of the door handle on her way out of the house!)

Sniff, sniff- our house with the For Sale sign out front.

Emma on the hunt

Grant was so delighted- you'll have to look at that face up close- it is priceless!

Kate was having so much fun finding eggs

See?

Putting the puzzle together afterwards during Conference

Bunnies for lunch

Enjoying lunch- notice Grant's conference crown. 

 Sunday afternoon Dad put on his annual Easter Scavenger Hunt.  The kids had a great time and enjoyed their basket of goodies. 

The prize at the end was: play dough, markers, sparkly light-up bouncy ball, and a ball with Velcro mitts.

Sunday evening we had dinner at our friends' home, the Flahertys.  They have 2 children with twins on the way!  We had delicious curry with sides of deviled eggs and a fruit pizza to polish it off. 
I am so thankful for my family and for all the great memories we create together.